Don't Take Your First Amendment Rights for Granted
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Students and faculty gathered in a dimly lit hallway to line up for
some free food, or what they thought was just free food.
They processed into what they know to be the ballroom in the
School of Commerce, but today it was more of a chamber in which first amendment
rights were consumed.
The First Amendment Free Food Festival took place for the
second time at High Point University.
The event advertises free food for the first 50 people in attendance.
Only there is a catch.
Students that expect to receive free food, complements of
Jimmy John’s, have to sign away their first amendment rights.
Once signing their rights away, students then proceed to the
food table.
They ask for ham, they receive turkey. They ask for Doritos,
they get Sun Chips.
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| Photo Credit: Mat McGowan |
When they complain about what they have received, they are
told well, for lack of a better term, stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
After receiving food, students and faculty sit down at lunch
tables.
Once people have sat down, they essentially have entered
into a world that is dominated by the leader/czar, also known as Doctor Hayes,
and his goons, a role that I had the fortunate pleasure of playing.
“Everyone is fair game when they walk through those doors,”
Hayes said after sending Dean Tremblay to jail for using his cell phone.
Students and faculty participating quickly picked up on what
rights they had just signed away merely minutes ago. Many students just kept to
themselves and tried very hard to avoid eye contact with “the goons”.
“I just tried to eat my food without drawing any attention
to myself because I didn’t want to get embarrassed in front of everyone,” said
Scarlett Howell, a student participating.
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